Wait, how is Liam Fox connected to Natalie Imbruglia’s ‘Torn’? I’m all out of faith!
Just when you think the Tories can no longer ruin your life, out they pop like the hand from the grave at the end of Carrie (the movie, not Johnson) to provide one last jump-scare.
Former Tory MP Liam Fox was on Iain Dale’s show on LBC last night, where he was asked one particular question by a listener.
“Is it true you dated Natalie Imbruglia in the 1990s? I need to know,” Iain reads out. To which Fox replies:
I would say that if you need to know that, you probably require a level of therapy. But yes, we were very good friends, and yes, I did help her pick ‘Torn’ out as a single. And yes, I was on the credits of the album.
“Yes, I was on the credits for the album.”
Sir Liam Fox tells @IainDale that he helped convince Natalie Imbruglia to release ‘Torn’ as a single during their ‘close friendship’ in the 1990s. pic.twitter.com/NtFgNQNSaF
— LBC (@LBC) July 25, 2024
Whaaat? Let’s back up.
It is indeed true – and die hard trivia experts remember – that Fox and Australian singer Imbruglia were friends back in the day. Imbruglia released her debut LP, Left of the Middle, in 1997, and it was the album’s lead single, ‘Torn’, that turned Imbruglia into a pop sensation. The song became a ubiquitous feature of radio airplay for literal years afterwards and it still holds up to this day.
Natalie Imbruglia
“Torn”
National Lottery, 1997pic.twitter.com/wzmZGqrG2U
— UK Back in the Day (@UKBackintheDay2) July 18, 2024
Here’s another thing to blow your mind: ‘Torn’ is actually one of those songs that’s a cover version that nobody realises is a cover version. The song was originally recored by a few different artists in the early ’90s, including Lis Sørensen, Trine Rein and Ednaswap.
Idk if you would call Lis Sørensen’s “Brændt” the original because it was recorded first, or Ednaswap’s first recording (because they wrote it originally), but Natalie Imbruglia went absolutely insane on this one. https://t.co/MWyRpGem2P pic.twitter.com/qRaNiSpOdB
— Grosdoriane (@Grosdoriane) July 20, 2024
ANYWAY. Back to the revelation (to some of us) that Liam Fox had a hand in ‘Torn’s’ success. People don’t know what to make of it. One might say, they’re all out of faith? They’re cold and shamed, lying naked on the floor at the news?
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Cannot believe so many people are discovering Liam Fox x Natalie Imbruglia and the fact about Torn, I thought it was relatively common knowledge?
— David Chipakupaku (@David_Chippa) July 26, 2024
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News that Sir Liam Fox dated Natalie Imbruglia in the ‘90s and convinced her to release ‘Torn’ as a single has blown my mind.
— Jordan Tyldesley (@PippyBing) July 25, 2024
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— Mrs Henderson (@MrsHenders4652) July 26, 2024
4.
Today I learn Melvyn Hayes wrote the theme to “The Double Deckers” and now this.
Sometimes @X is a force for good. https://t.co/SWpBxIcJ60
— James Stewart (@jamsstew) July 25, 2024
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13 year old me is devastated by this news https://t.co/rJt38zlnma
— Stuart Wallace (@echrhawk) July 26, 2024
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Sorry what in the jesus is going on here https://t.co/0jkpNC87Sj
— Boj (@thenotoriousboj) July 26, 2024
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Natalie imbruglia dated Liam fox back in the 90s… pic.twitter.com/1bxvYrG9y0
— Lindsey Ramskill (@linziramma) July 26, 2024
